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Elite paddler Greydon Viloria of Royal Kunia, while multi-tasking in his Pueo, one man canoe, caught this 10 lb Ulua during his workout in June. After 30 minutes into his workout, he got a bite, and it took him 15 minutes of fun to bring this one in! Viloria said he “had so much fun with this workout!” Photo courtesy Viloria Ohana

Wow, what a Summer! It started with a bang, and is continuing to boom each day! There s̒ so much to do, and lots of time to do it. We just need to make the time, and do it! I know everyone is having fun, even if we didn’t have any huge south swells . Well, not yet anyway. There was a nice North swell in June, and oh well, let s̒ just continue to “Pray for Surf”!!! The canoe regatta season is winding down which means, distance season begins and then the two big ones, the Na Wahine O Ke Kai (September 23, 2012) and the Molokai Hoe (October 7, 2012). Stay tuned for those annual events and the of-ficial program printed right here in our Makai Ocean Lifestyle Magazine.. A lot of change is going to happen in our islands, be sure to be apart of that change. Register to vote, especially if you utilize the ocean. Why? When change happens, you want to have a say in it. So VOTE! We hope you enjoy this issue featuring Rachel Kincaid, you will surely hear about her for a long long time! Lots going on, in and on the ocean! Take advantage of the long days, lots of light into the night! Just wanted to give a shout out to Jane McKee. for last months article “Remem-bering Kendall” and photo in her article and of Jason Ignacio.

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Rachel Kincaid Glides Through Olympic Waters By Alyssa S. Navares

MRachel Kincaid, her summer consists of intense train-ing in and out of her kayak, as she preps for a Junior Olympic training camp in Lake Placid, New York.

The recent Mid-Pacific Institute graduate is the only athlete from Hawai‘i who qualified for the U18 Kayak Team. She joins top female kayakers from around the United States at this year’s Lake Placid Training Camp and Tour, which helps to develop world-class

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kayak athletes and teams planning for future national, world and Olympic competition. ed. “It really makes me happy to know And work hard she does. Rachel has been training at home even before attending the esteemed training camp in New York. As if morning and after-noon kayak practices aren’t enough, the Kane’ohe girl continues to push herself by paddling with the Outrigger Canoe Club and going to the gym three times a week. What keeps her so motivated and unfazed by temptations of a typical teen’s summer break? “I have to keep doing the best I can,” explained Rachel, who has already been invited to the camp twice before. “Because when I go to these camps, I want to be the one that stands out and shows that I did get the spot for a rea-son.” Rachel will train and compete in individual and team boats while at the camp. This will give coaches a chance to observe the athletes in various kayaks (K-1, K-2, and K-4) and to determine which boats best fit the athletes. Their hard work pays off during the latter half of the summer, when racing in the Canada Day Regatta and Lake Placid International Regatta. Last time Rachel raced at Lake Placid, she won the silver medal in both the K1 500-meter event and the K4 200-meter event. This time around, she’s hoping to bring home the gold! “Lake Placid is one of my favorite venues,” she said, describing the beauti-ful mountain community. “Not only because it’s easier to paddle in fresh water, but because if you’re going to get a wind, it’s always going to be a side wind.” She pointed out that the near-perfect conditions at Lake Placid almost makes paddling more enjoyable than pad-dling in Hawai‘i. “The Ala Wai is weird because it can get really windy at times,” she explained. “You could be going upwind and then get a sidewind and then a tailwind, all in 10 seconds.” Rachel was born into an ocean family and followed in her parents’ footsteps by continuing the Kincaid paddling legacy. But it wasn’t until her sophomore year at Mid-Pac that Rachel first stepped foot into a kayak, where she really excelled and found herself on podiums both at home and abroad. Last summer alone, Rachel competed in races across the country and proudly brought home sev-eral medals to show for her success. She placed second and third nation-ally in the 500-meter and 1000-meter events of the 2011 National Trials in Chula Vistas, Calif. Because of this, Rachel was selected to join the junior national team and train in Lake Placid. That’s where she won silver medals for the K1 and K4. Rachel picked up two



more silvers in Gainesville, GA, where she represented Hawai‘i in the National Sprint Championships. She partnered up with Kamehameha’s Tati Perrin for the K2 1000-meter race and again in the K2 500-meter. Together, they brought home a silver and bronze medal, respectively for each race. But that wasn’t all that Rachel won during the Georgia cham-pionships; she came home with another bronze medal after racing in the K1 5000-meter. “My personal goal is to always push my limit,” she said. “But recently, I haven’t seen my limit and am always encouraging myself to see what I can do.” Needless to say, Rachel has made her family, friends and coaches very proud. In fact, she says that they’re her biggest motivation when it comes to taking that extra stroke on the water or that extra rep in the gym. “I’m fortunate to have a huge sup-port base,” she said. “My mom and dad are my biggest fans, and I feel like I want to make them proud. I want to make all of my aunties and uncles proud, too.” Her mother, Genie Kincaid, will be accompanying Rachel to Lake Placid. But it’s no different than previous races, as Rachel always has at least one par-ent present for support. Genie and her husband, Chris, recognized their daugh-ter’s dedication to water sports early on and know that she’s “at a point where she knows what to do,” Genie said. In other words, Rachel’s a big girl now, so no advice is needed from her parents, “unless she asks for it, that is.” “Rachel has distinguished herself by being very self-motivated and taking the initiative to challenge herself,” her mother said. “It’s gotten her to where she is today.” She pointed out that her daughter has not only pushed herself in the water but in school as well. Rachel graduated with an honors diploma and was one of only 31 kids in the graduating class of 200 to finish their high school career as full International Baccalaureate candidates. It’s one of the highest honors for any high school stu-dent because they’re taking college-level courses during high school. “Out of all the things she has done, I think that was the proudest moment for me and Chris,” Genie said. Rachel will be starting at the University of San Diego in the fall on scholarship and joining the school’s rowing team. She hopes to one day give back to Mid-Pac because “they were the ones that got me into (kayaking) in the first place,” Rachel exclaimed. But as she glides forward in life – beyond her high school years – Rachel hopes to push her limits to the highest level by one day competing in the Olympics.

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The recent ROXY Waikiki Classic in Waikiki brought together more than 300 girls, from ages six to 60, to celebrate summer and the women's surfing lifestyle. The 2-day event featured an ASP pro longboard competition on the Satur-day, and a host of amateur age divisions for short and longboard on Sunday. Honolulu's Crystal Dzigas, 28, took first place in the ROXY pro event, defeating reigning world #2 ranked longboard surfer Kelia Moniz (Hawaii), Natalie Smith (California), and ROXY pro surfer Vanina Walsh (Hawaii) in the final. The ROXY Waikiki Classic is the third of seven Association of Surfing Professionals Women's World Longboard Tour qualifier events that will determine the short list of women who will com-pete for the 2012 ASP World Longboard title in China, in November. Roxy is an action sports and fashion apparel brand out of Huntington Beach, California. Dzigas settled into a steady rhythm with the ocean through the rounds, capitalizing on incon-sistent conditions by dominating the larger waves

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Two years ago the Pa’a ‘Eono Hoe sparked a revolution in outrigger canoeing. By eliminating the archaic design restrictions, Pa’a single handedly changed paddling forever. With the free-dom to design anything, builders like us jumped on the opportunity. Now, two years later there are a dozen open class canoes on the water in Hawai’i and mul-tiple races allowing open class designs. Every paddling association in the world (other than Hawai’i) has now eliminated restrictions completely.

We are proud to have played a small part in that revolution. The day that Pa’a announced the inaugural ‘Eono we immediately began making plans to build a canoe. With just eight weeks to design and build it, we knew the odds were not in our favor. Strip planked one-off canoes are built completely differently than we build the Pueo on a daily basis. So not only were we tasked with com-ing up with a revolutionary design, but we also had to figure out how to build the thing. When we were three weeks in it became evident that, for once, we were right on schedule. Since being on schedule takes away the challenge (and because Keizo really wanted his own canoe to race) we (more like he) decided

to build a second canoe. Now we were down to five weeks and had the added burden of trying to fit a second canoe in our shop while maintaining our current production schedule of one Pueo per day. If you were one of the unlucky few to have walked into our shop between April and May of 2010, then you proba-bly had to wade through a pile of debris and hold your breath against the ever present cloud of fiberglass dust. To put it simply, it was a nightmare.

The last forty-eight hours before the race is a big blur. We loaded two canoes with freshly sprayed gel coat on a 70ft barge on Friday night before the race. Due to massive seas, the boat didn’t get to Moloka’i until Saturday afternoon and it took us three hours just to get the canoes off the barge. We then worked on the canoes until dark, then went back before dawn Sunday morning to con-tinue the process. Half an hour before the race we were finally done. And then

we won the race. And we won again the next year with a new canoe. Now, going into year three, things have changed.

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Time Team Name Crew1 3:41:26 Kamanu OD Justin Watts, Mael Carey, Alika Guillaume, Alex Epling, Makana Denton, Luke Evslin2 3:45:44 Golden Gun OD Pat Dolan, Matthew Crowley, Aaron Creps, Manny Kulukulualani, John Foti, Karel Tresnak3 4:07:17 Hui Lanakila Spec M; Anthony Ortiz; Victor Bovino Agostini,Keka Kamakawi woole, Mario Mausio,Makena Fernandez, Adam Treinen-Aea.4 4:23:58 Juniors ODjrLogan Spencer, Hopena Pokipala, Nick Herrera, Makana Darval-Chang, Alex Look, Kainoa Darval-Chan5 4:29:08 Kailua -OD Cliff Tillotson, Fred DeloSantos, Walter Hamasaki, Bob Eheler, Rob Cates. 6 4:38:08 40 Ounces to Freedom-Spec-Andy Cummings, Charles Meyer, Wendell Balai, Joe Omally, DJ Oga, Doug Borton.7 4:49:43 Pacific Wahine OD-Anna Mathisen, Katie Stephens, Mei Tuiculo, Camille DeCarmenjane,Nohea Hirahara, Tee Felgate8 4:57:36 Brisbane Outrigger CC-ODM Richard Howearth, Danny Topfer, Andrew Sbrizza, Dave Hansen,Peter Austin, Jonathon Bloxham9 5:03:30 Lovell-Taylor ODWPaula Crabb, Patsy Vasquez, Carlene Ornellas, Nicole Pedersen, Donna Kahakui, Shelley Oates-Wilding.10 5:10:04 Waikiki BeachBoys CC ODW-Dana Gorecki, Lindsay Shank, Shinlu Stockesbary, Kaui Pelekane, Rachel Bruntsch, Frances Lichowski.11 5:25:30 Hui Nalu-Spec W Aulani Hall, Leah Miller, Jane Duncan, Kehau Lau, Alexia Lopez, Nicola KoyamaSpec = HCRA Specified 400lb. canoe division. (example - “Spec M50” division would be HCRA specified 400lb. canoe for Men ages 50-54 ) OD = Open Design 200lb + (example - “OD W40+” division is Open Design Women’s 40-49 crew)

Photo courtesy Keizo Gates


and is symbolic of the Hawaiian canoe, it was the perfect name for us. WIth our latest V-6, we knew it was time to bring it back.

Equally as important is the crew that will be racing her. Justin Watts, Mael Carey, Alika Guillaume, Alex Epling, Makana Denton, and Luke Evslin. All of them are employees of Kamanu Composites. Justin does guts (laminating the inter-nal structures of the Pueo and closing the mold); Mael made all of our seats between 2008 and 2010, was one of our original team riders, and is currently the Maui rep for Kamanu; Alika is a lamina-tor (laminates the hull, deck, and ama of the Pueo on a daily basis); Alex and Makana are both finishers (rigging, fin-ishing, quality control, repairs), and Luke is one of the founders of the company. Instead of putting together an all-star

team consisting of our top team riders, this race was literally about family. For the first time ever, we will be racing not as Team Kamanu, but just as Kamanu. The members of this year’s crew are a representative sample of the ‘ohana that works hard to produce and deliver every Pueo. We aren’t in this to win; we’re racing ‘Eono in Kamanu to represent where we came from, to show where we’re going, and, most of all, to repre-sent the hard work that each of our 19 employees puts into every canoe.

Designed by Keizo Gates, led by Todd Strand, and built by all of Kamanu Composites, we are proud to present our newest canoe: Kamanu. Named after the manu, our company, and all that they represent, she is the embodiment of what we do. Kamanu, sprayed in primer gray (final spray job to be done later), will be blessed at 9:30 at Kaluakoi on Moloka’i just minutes before her inaugu-ral voyage this Sunday. She is our ode to a new era.


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